On 12-01-04 at 10:37am, Daniel Svensson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System > <ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > > Bug #654512 [xmms2] postler: doesn't contain source for waf binary code > > Changed Bug title to 'Doesn't contain source for waf binary code' from > > 'postler: doesn't contain source for waf binary code' > > This is just a compressed file in the XMMS2 project. You can compress > your own from this script and the configuration file: > > http://git.xmms.se/xmms2/xmms2-stable/tree/utils/wafgen > http://git.xmms.se/xmms2/xmms2-stable/tree/utils/wafgen.conf > > I don't believe the Debian package includes these two files, but the > upstream source tar ball do. > > You can also use some external waf package if you wish so, but we > cannot guarantee it will work as we usually pull in patches from > upstream waf when we want to do things that isn't supported in the > released version yet, or the upstream version has been changed and we > rather get our software out with a working build system instead of > spending a couple of weeks making sure the new version builds our > software on all our supported OSes. > > As I mentioned, this is a question of a compressed file, so sure it's > binary encoded, but when you execute ./waf, it will decompress into > the ".waf-1.6.7-b271784c448ab906d5606267fb7f92c0" directory in the top > level directory.
How can the Debian project rest assured that that the binary indeed is (only!) unpacking itself when executed? Also, that it is the case for _every_ new upstream release, not only once when you cared to investigate closely. Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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